Spamassassin

[Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>]

After an apt-get upgrade, Spamassassin failed to configure:

root@etch:~# dpkg --configure spamassassin
Setting up spamassassin (3.1.7-2etch1) ...
Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: [6777] dbg: logger: adding 
facilities: all
[6777] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG
[6777] dbg: logger: trying to connect to syslog/unix...
[6777] dbg: logger: opening syslog with unix socket
[6777] dbg: logger: successfully connected to syslog/unix
[6777] dbg: logger: successfully added syslog method
[6777] dbg: spamd: will perform setuids? 0
[6777] error: spamd: cannot use --virtual-config-dir without -u
spamd: cannot use --virtual-config-dir without -u
invoke-rc.d: initscript spamassassin, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing spamassassin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 spamassassin


A Google search was unfruitful.  Is this error caused by something in my 
config or in the package itself?  Any clues on how to fix it?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.